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Fireweed

Epilobium angustifolium

Photo by SandraL
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Field Notes

Description:

Along roadsides in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Notes:

Saw these and they were quite pretty spotted all over the "countryside".

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Epilobium angustifolium

Species ID Suggestions

Fireweed

Epilobium angustifolium
shebebusynow
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Comments (1)
shebebusynow
It's called Fireweed because it's one of the first plants to come up and bloom after a forest fire. It likes any clearing, such as a forest clearcut, but gives way to taller shrubs in succeeding years.

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Flowers of North America
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PublishedApril 2, 2011

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